[Pmwiki-users] Information gems regarding PmWiki

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:34:20AM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:20:28AM +0100, Jean-Claude wrote:
> > Since we have a wonderful tool (PmWiki!) which is just perfect to put
> > things in files and themes where they belong and therefore become very
> > easy to retrieve, may I suggest that we use the mailing list to
> > announce subjects, and to provide an appropriate link to the PmWiki
> > site where the explanation should be developped, kept and organized ?
> 
> Is your logic that the announcements will be fewer thus less to search
> through while the wiki will contain all of the useful information?

Not at all...the logic is that it's easier to search the wiki and to
reorganize the information in forms other than chronological order.  :-)

> It's kind of a pity that the mail archives don't have a real good search
> facility.  

...and I'll fix this in the next day or so.

> Something that would be interesting is if there were an automated method
> to turn those email messages into wiki pages. But I suspect that would
> require modifying the mailman software that the mailing list uses. 

Not at all, this is what procmail is for!  :-)  Simply set up a mail 
account that uses procmail to processes the email messages however 
you'd like, subscribe that account to the listserv, and you're done!

Another option: set up an email address somewhere (I propose somewhere
at pmichaud.com--any ideas?) and when a message comes across the listserv 
that someone thinks ought to be preserved or indexed in the wiki, they 
simply forward the message to the address and it gets handled from there.

Automation is our friend.  Wiki and email should complement each other,
not compete.  :-)

Pm